20 Electrifying Free Photoblog Themes for WordPress

WordPress has become the most popular CMS on earth over the past decade and is being used by some of the worlds top companies including The New York Times, CNN, Forbes, eBay, BestBuy, Tech Crunch and more. One of the users of WordPress other than the traditional writing a blog is to use it as a photo gallery to display your portfolio.

Especially, for photograph lovers the CMS can be used as a complete Photo blogging solution. So if you’re looking for a cheap solution for your long-awaited website, it’s a good solution. We’ve combed the web for the best free photo-blog wordpress themes out there, and here is our final list. These themes are well constructed and up with current trends and are sure to stand out from the crowd.

1. Marla

Marla is a free WordPress theme easily to customize. From a single page you can edit lively the colors, logo, footer, social icons, author bio, layout, etc.

Marla

2. Sidekick

Sidekick is a Superhero child theme without the bells and whistles. It’s a clean, widget-free, single-column theme that looks great with any content, but excels at displaying panoramic featured images.

Sidekick

3. Dazzling

Dazzling is a clean modern and fully responsive flat design WordPress theme well suited for blogs and static websites. Theme can be used for travel, corporate, portfolio, personal and any other creative website.

Dazzling

4. Fontfolio

Fontfolio is a grid-style theme, perfect for designers, illustrators, and artists. Show off your best work with Featured Images, a clean, responsive layout etc.

Fontfolio

5. Visual

Visual is a dark, elegant take on the traditional portfolio theme, perfect for showcasing your photography, art, or general interests.

Visual

6. Virtue Free WordPress Theme

Virtue free theme is extremely versatile. For a free theme it’s loaded with tons of premium options. You will find it easy to customize and fully loaded with great features.

Virtue Free WordPress Theme

7. Nova

Nova is a responsive clean Tumblog WordPress Theme, based on Bootstrap framework. The theme support all modern browsers.

Nova

8. Travelify

Travelify WordPress theme design is inspired by nature. We made it as simple as possible while fully customizable with several Theme Options and page templates.

Travelify

9. Satu

One-column beautiful and mobile friendly WordPress theme, good choice for professional blogger and smart photographer.

Satu

10. AutoFocus

AutoFocus is an elegant, minimal theme designed for artists, photographers, and other creatives seeking a simple but beautiful way to showcase their talents online.

AutoFocus

11. Mixfolio

Mixfolio is a responsive, post format-packed, photographer-loving portfolio theme. Mixfolio comes with a set of Theme Options that allows you to create and display a Welcome Area on your home page.

12. Writr

13. Snaps

Snaps is a free portfolio theme for WordPress perfect for showcasing portrait images and galleries.

Snaps

14. Origami

The idea behind Origami was simple. It needed to be as clean and minimal as possible so that all of a reader’s focus would be on the blog’s content.

Origami

15. Sixteen

Sixteen is an artistic and responsive theme suitable for most blogs. It supports header image with a parallax effect. A Responsive Slider, Customizable Header and Footer, Grid Layout for Homepage, etc make it one of the most unique wordpress themes.

Sixteen

16. Spun

Spun is a minimalist theme that puts the emphasis on your content; extraneous navigation fades away to put your words and images front and center.

Spun

17. Hatch

Hatch is a lightweight, bare-bones theme for photographers, illustrators, and visual artists. Your portfolio is certain to stand out with the theme’s bold featured images, full-width posts, and a space for your logo.

Hatch

18. Careta

Careta is my first theme made for WordPress. The theme is full responsive and tested in many devices and resolutions.

Careta

19. Triton Lite

Triton Lite is a clean and simple yet versatile theme designed with photographers in mind. Its home page and archive pages offer truly dynamic layouts.

Triton Lite

20. Tesla

Tesla WordPress Theme has some limitations and comes AS IS (without updates and premium support). It is powered by our earliest version of Tesla Framework and supports only 8 portfolio items and 4 images in main slider.